« All Distressing Quotes
·
Antoine Lavoisier's Page
Distressing Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
1 Distressing quote by Antoine Lavoisier
More Quotes by Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance,…
-
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science,…
-
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical…
-
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely…
-
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…
-
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle…
-
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so…
-
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous…
-
Languages are true analytical methods.
-
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the…
-
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
-
I am young and avid for glory.
See all 35 quotes by Antoine Lavoisier »
More Distressing Quotes
Popular Distressing quotes from across the collection:
-
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…
— Bill Bryson
-
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to…
— Graydon Carter
-
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
— Margaret Cho
-
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
— Mother Teresa
-
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and…
— Dalai Lama
-
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
— Sigmund Freud
-
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces…
— Thomas Carlyle
-
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but…
— Leslie Charteris
-
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
— George Stigler
-
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him…
— Mother Teresa
See all Distressing Quotes »
Browse Antoine Lavoisier Quotes by Category